The Appellant joined the Police Force on 10.8.1970. He
served in that institution for about two and a half decades until 13.2.1998
when, then of the rank of a station sergeant, was dismissed from employment by
the first Respondent, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) on misconduct
allegations. Convinced that his dismissal was unjustified and unreasonable, he
made an administrative pursuit within the Police Force to have that decision
reversed but his efforts proved futile. It was then that he instituted a suit against
the first Respondent in which he joined the Attorney General who is the chief
government adviser, the outcome of which resulted in the present appeal. The
substance of the Appellant’s case before the trial court was that the first
Respondent’s decision to dismiss him from the Force was “incompetent,
unreasonable, irregular, unprocedural and unlawful, as such null and void ab
initio having no legal effect whatsoever.”